NXP is using Embedded World as a platform to boost the prospects of near field communications (NFC) technology in a range of applications.According to Rafael Sotomajor, SVP of NXP’s secure mobile transactions business, ‘the time is now’ for NFC, but he concedes that further work needs to be done to increase its acceptance. &ld...

While analogue transmitters are less suitable for integration in advanced CMOS nodes, digital transmitters typically fall short when it comes to high-end performance parameters such as out-of-band noise and spurious emission.Belgian nanoelectronics research center imec and Vrije Universiteit Brussel claim to have overcome this with a transmitte...

The first family in a range of SoCs intended to support 3D instrument clusters has been launched by Renesas. The R-Car D1 Series is intended to provide a smooth migration path for automotive system manufacturers as the use of colour LCD panels in instrument cluster systems becomes more widespread.In the future, the company believes, display siz...

University of Utah engineers have discovered a 2D semiconducting material that could enable faster devices which consume less power.While researchers in this field have recently discovered 2D materials such as graphene, molybdenum disulphide and borophene, these only allow the movement of electrons. According to associate professor Ashutosh Tiw...

The Centre for Process Innovation (CPI) and Heidelberg Instruments have developed a high resolution, high speed roll to roll digital lithography tool for the manufacture of flexible organic thin film transistors (OTFT) used in next generation applications such as foldable display screens, sensors, integrated circuits and photo-detectors.The mac...

In a move targeted at developers not familiar with the PIC microcontroller, Microchip has launched MPLAB Xpress, a Cloud based integrated development environment (IDE) which it claims is the easiest way to get started with PIC MCUs.The free IDE is said to provide access to popular features from the company’s MPLAB X IDE, including a libra...

Researchers from University College London (UCL) have designed and tested technology that could reduce the cost of deploying fast fibre connections straight to homes. It is claimed that the technology will help address the challenges of providing households with high bandwidths while future-proofing infrastructure against the growing demand for dat...

A group of scientists from at the US Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory, Stony Brook University (SBU), and the Colleges of Nanoscale Science and Engineering at SUNY Polytechnic Institute claim to have developed a method for creating resilient, customised, and high-performing graphene: layering it on top of common glass....

Researchers from the Optical Networks Group at University College London (UCL) claim to have set a record for the fastest ever data rate for digital information. The group achieved a rate of 1.125Tbit/s as part of research on the capacity limits of optical transmission systems, designed to address the growing demand for fast data rates.Lead res...

Physicists at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) claim to have developed a nanowire lasers grown on a silicon chip, making it possible to produce high-performance photonic components cost-effectively. The scientists say that this will pave the way for fast and efficient data processing with light in the future.The miniaturisation of elect...